Word: medals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida, minors are barred from frontons, but as a youngster Cornblit got around the rules by climbing to the roof and staring through a vent at the leaping, whirling players below. After three years of instruction, primarily from a Cuban coach, he won a bronze medal at the 1971 World Championships at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. He was just 15, but his lightning reflexes and devastating "kill" shots-150-m.p.h. caroms that whistle off two walls and the floor before bouncing beyond his opponents' reach -made him the first American winner in international competition. His rebote is among...
...necessary antidote to weekly journalism. It's fun to have space for 100,000 words," says Senior Writer Robert Hughes, who is writing about the colonization of Australia by convicts in the 18th century. Correspondent Neil MacNeil turned to history in a recent monograph, The President's Medal, 1789-1977. For others, contemporary events have provided subjects: Associate Editor David Tinnin's forthcoming I, Terrorist examines the motivations of terrorists; Correspondent James Willwerth's new Badge of Madness is about the breakdown of one New York policeman...
...help kicking up her skates in glee. "I love it," she bubbles about her stint with the Ice Capades. "Competition is just you and the record and the judges' marks," the Olympic gold-medal winner explains. "But an ice show is for entertainment, lots of glitter and fairy tale and fantasy." When her glitter days are over, Dorothy hopes to teach skating to blind and handicapped youngsters. "If they're blind, you hold their hand," she says. "Soon they're skating just like anyone else." Well, not like Dorothy...
...books, and edited the one volume An Encyclopedia of World History, which serves as a standard reference work for many students. Beginning in World War II, he served in several positions with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of State, and in 1945 President Truman awarded him the Medal for Merit for his intelligence work during the war. Even more commendable is the fact that during his years of government service Langer was a strong advocate of the right of historians and the public to gain access to classified government records...
...Thai border town, has operated there for nearly 30 years, almost with the rank of honorary consul. A gray-haired gentleman, he emerges from his teakwood house in cardigan and sarong. Inside, on a wall, is a photograph of him shaking hands with a U.S. ambassador, and a U.S. medal for services to the hill tribes. "Goodness gracious," he says in mellifluous Raj English, when asked about the medal, "I don't know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves at bay." He seems accommodating...